The Impact of Fear of Failure on College Students’ Learning from Failure: A Moderated Mediation Model

  • HAO Xiling ,
  • CHEN Xuan ,
  • LIU Yiran
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  • 1. School of Business Administration, Anhui University of Finance & Economics, Bengbu 233030;
    2. School of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300071

Received date: 2021-12-31

  Online published: 2022-09-20

Abstract

Based on the protective motivation theory, a moderated mediation model of the fear of failure, protective effort, coping strategy, and college students’ learning from failure was constructed. Hypotheses were tested using a sample of 596 college students with prior failure experience. The results showed that: 1) fear of failure was positively correlated with college students’ learning from failure; 2) protective effort played a partial mediating role in the relationship between fear of failure and failure learning among college students; 3) coping strategy moderated the effect of fear of failure on protective effort. Fear of failure had a more salient positive impact on protective effort for college students with a high level of coping strategy.

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HAO Xiling , CHEN Xuan , LIU Yiran . The Impact of Fear of Failure on College Students’ Learning from Failure: A Moderated Mediation Model[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2022 , 20(5) : 707 -713 . DOI: 10.12139/j.1672-0628.2022.05.019

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